Method and apparatus for selectively applying the power adjustment of a transmit power control command

ABSTRACT

A method and apparatus provide for receiving a transmit power control command related to a physical uplink shared channel transmission having more than one scheduled transmission repetitions. An applicability of at least a portion of a power adjustment to less than all of the repetitions of the physical uplink shared channel transmission is determined. The physical uplink shared channel transmission is transmitted during each of the more than one scheduled transmission repetitions, wherein the at least the portion of the power adjustment is selectively applied as determined to the specified less than all of the more than one scheduled transmission repetitions.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present disclosure is directed to a method and apparatus fordetermining the basis of formulating a triggered power headroom report,and the applicability of the power adjustment associated with a transmitpower control command to each of multiple repetitions of a particulartransmission, including instances associated with an ultra reliable andlow latency type of communication transmission.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Presently, user equipment (UE), such as wireless communication devices,communicate with other communication devices using wireless signals,such as within a network environment that can include one or more cellswithin which various communication connections with the network andother devices operating within the network can be supported. Networkenvironments often involve one or more sets of standards, which eachdefine various aspects of any communication connection being made whenusing the corresponding standard within the network environment.Examples of developing and/or existing standards include new radioaccess technology (NR), Long Term Evolution (LTE), Universal MobileTelecommunications Service (UMTS), Global System for MobileCommunication (GSM), and/or Enhanced Data GSM Environment (EDGE).

At any given time, the conditions related to establishing andmaintaining a communication connection between the wirelesscommunication device and the network via a particular cell can change asthe relationship between the particular wireless communication deviceand the one or more base stations change. In some of these same andother instances, the degree to which a communication connection canchange or the manner in which the communication connection is expectedto adapt can be dependent upon the type of communication connection. Atleast one type of emerging communication connection is identified as anultra reliable and low latency type of communication, which has usagerequirements that have an expected level of performance relative tocertain aspects of the communication. For example the response times areexpected to support a defined low latency, and a defined allowable biterror rate is expected to support an predetermined level of reliability.

This new type of communication is intended to support applications wheresignificant delays in the responsiveness of the system in relayingcommunication messages between the user and the systems with which theyare communicating would degrade the user experience and/or thereasonable performance of a particular application. Examples ofapplications that might benefit from communications having reducedlatency and higher reliability include autonomous driving applications,remote surgery applications, and immersive online gaming entertainmentapplications, such as augmented reality or virtual reality typeapplications, as well as a type of gaming that requires an interactionbetween a server and a relatively large number of players. Some of theseapplication may be identified as being mission critical that require anuninterrupted, and a robust data exchange in order to perform at anacceptable level. Intended support for such systems has in someinstances called for a rethinking of how some communication supportingprocesses are performed.

For example, one way in which a bit error rate can be reduced is throughan increase in transmit power. However an increase in the transmit powerof a particular user becomes the potential source for an increase ininterference relative to other nearby users. A network typically managesthe communications for multiple users of which several may each beinterested in applications requiring support for an ultra reliable andlow latency form of communication.

The present inventors have recognized that by better managing uplinkpower control between the various user equipment and the network it maybe possible to better support a low latency communication environmentintended to support multiple users, where the reliability may beenhanced through the inclusion of changes to the way that power headroom reports are determined and communicated, as well as incorporatingvarious mechanisms for providing more robust forms of dynamic poweradjustment.

SUMMARY

The present application provides a method in a user equipment. Themethod includes receiving a transmit power control command related to aphysical uplink shared channel transmission having more than onescheduled transmission repetitions. An applicability of at least aportion of a power adjustment to less than all of the repetitions of thephysical uplink shared channel transmission is determined. The physicaluplink shared channel transmission is transmitted during each of themore than one scheduled transmission repetitions, wherein the at leastthe portion of the power adjustment is selectively applied as determinedto the specified less than all of the more than one scheduledtransmission repetitions.

According to another possible embodiment, a user equipment in acommunication network is provided. The user equipment includes acontroller, and a transceiver, coupled to the controller. Thetransceiver receives a transmit power control command related to aphysical uplink shared channel transmission having more than onescheduled transmission repetitions. The controller determines anapplicability of at least a portion of a power adjustment in thereceived transmit power control command to less than all of therepetitions of the physical uplink shared channel transmission. Thetransceiver further transmits the physical uplink shared channeltransmission during each of the more than one scheduled transmissionrepetitions, where the at least the portion of the power adjustment isselectively applied, as determined, to the specified less than all ofthe more than one scheduled transmission repetitions.

According to a further possible embodiment, a method in a network entityfor communicating with a user equipment is provided. The method includestransmitting a transmit power control command related to a physicaluplink shared channel transmission, which has more than one scheduledtransmission repetitions. The physical uplink shared channeltransmission is received from the user equipment during each of the morethan one scheduled transmission repetitions, wherein at least a portionof a power adjustment has been selectively applied as determined by theuser equipment from the transmit power control command to less than allof the more than one scheduled transmission repetitions.

According to a still further possible embodiment, a network entity forcommunicating with a user equipment is provided. The network entityincludes a controller, and a transceiver, coupled to the controller. Thetransceiver transmits a transmit power control command related to aphysical uplink shared channel transmission, which has more than onescheduled transmission repetitions. The transceiver further receivesfrom the user equipment the physical uplink shared channel transmissionfrom the user equipment during each of the more than one scheduledtransmission repetitions. At least a portion of a power adjustment hasbeen selectively applied, as determined by the user equipment from thetransmit power control command, to less than all of the more than onescheduled transmission repetitions.

These and other objects, features, and advantages of the presentapplication are evident from the following description of one or morepreferred embodiments, with reference to the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary network environment in whichthe present invention is adapted to operate;

FIG. 2 is an exemplary table for physical uplink shared channelpreparation time for physical uplink shared channel timing capability 1;

FIG. 3 is an exemplary table for physical uplink shared channelpreparation time for physical uplink shared channel timing capability 2;

FIG. 4 is an exemplary table, which associates a value of separate bitfield of a transmit power control command with an additional power boostvalue and a change to be applied to an accumulated power value;

FIG. 5 is a flow diagram in a user equipment for determining the basisof a triggered power head room report;

FIG. 6 is a flow diagram in a user equipment for selectively applyingthe power adjustment of a transmit power control command;

FIG. 7 is a flow diagram in a network entity associated with theapplication of the power adjustment of a transmit power control command;and

FIG. 8 is an example block diagram of an apparatus according to apossible embodiment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT(S)

While the present disclosure is susceptible of embodiment in variousforms, there is shown in the drawings and will hereinafter be describedpresently preferred embodiments with the understanding that the presentdisclosure is to be considered an exemplification of the invention andis not intended to limit the invention to the specific embodimentsillustrated.

Embodiments provide a method and apparatus for power control and powerheadroom report enhancements for ultra reliable and low latencycommunication transmissions.

FIG. 1 is an example block diagram of a system 100 according to apossible embodiment. The system 100 can include a wireless communicationdevice 110, such as User Equipment (UE), a base station 120, such as anenhanced NodeB (eNB) or next generation NodeB (gNB), and a network 130.The wireless communication device 110 can be a wireless terminal, aportable wireless communication device, a smartphone, a cellulartelephone, a flip phone, a personal digital assistant, a personalcomputer, a selective call receiver, a tablet computer, a laptopcomputer, or any other device that is capable of sending and receivingcommunication signals on a wireless network.

The network 130 can include any type of network that is capable ofsending and receiving wireless communication signals. For example, thenetwork 130 can include a wireless communication network, a cellulartelephone network, a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)-based network,a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)-based network, an OrthogonalFrequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)-based network, a Long TermEvolution (LTE) network, a 5th generation (5G) network, a 3rd GenerationPartnership Project (3GPP)-based network, a satellite communicationsnetwork, a high altitude platform network, the Internet, and/or othercommunications networks.

Ultra reliable and low latency communications (URLLC) is one of theemerging applications in wireless industry and one of the targetservices provided by the 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) standards. At least fromphysical-layer perspective, at least a couple of distinctions of URLLCrelative to the legacy wireless service—enhanced mobile broadband(eMBB)—is having a target block error probability (BLER) requirementwhich is much lower (e.g., up to 10{circumflex over ( )}−6), higheravailability and a shorter target latency requirement (e.g., in theorder of 0.5-1 msec). To achieve these more stringent performancerequirements for URLLC, new designs meeting increasingly strictoperational requirements are needed than corresponding operationalrequirements needed for eMBB. A basic design has been previously adoptedin Rel-15 (mainly channel quality indicator (CQI) and modulation andcoding scheme (MCS)—design to achieve reliability up to 10{circumflexover ( )}−5 BLER), and further enhancements are underway in URLLC.

Uplink power control (PC) is among the many elements being consideredthat are expected can help URLLC to achieve its target requirements. Forexample, new PC designs may be appropriate to handle inter-UEmultiplexing (e.g., between eMBB and URLLC users) and to dynamicallyboost the power for a URLLC transmission. On the other hand, new designsthat are adopted for URLLC in other areas also impact the PC design andcall for a revisit of the existing 5G NR power control framework forpossible changes and improvements. For example, timing relationships(such as the grant-to-transmission gap timing, and out-of-orderscheduling) that are being considered in Rel-15 are being improved forURLLC enhancements to allow faster processing and transmission of URLLCtraffic. Consequently, power control and power headroom report (PHR)operations may need to be revisited in view of these new features.

The present application discusses some of the new PC and PHR aspects forURLLC traffic and provides proposals for those new aspects. Inparticular, proposals included herein attempt to address the followingissues:

-   -   Timing aspects of power headroom report (PHR) operation for        out-of-order scheduling,        -   including: whether and/or how to modify the PHR “cut-off            time” and possibly the selection of the PUSCH transmission            that carries the PHR    -   Power control changes for inter-UE multiplexing        -   including: mechanisms for dynamic power boosting via TPC            command indication, etc.

The proposals are mainly described in the context of 3GPP 5G NR Rel-16,but can be applied to other releases of 5G NR and other wirelesstechnologies as well.

Changes to Power Headroom Report (PHR)

Out-of-Order Scheduling

Note: Throughout this disclosure, when discussing timing relationships(e.g., earlier/later than, earliest/latest, between, etc.) for an uplink(UL) downlink control information (DCI), the intention is to denote thereception time of, for example the first symbol or the last symbol of aphysical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that carries that UL DCI, orhigher layer signaling, if applicable. This applies to dynamicallyscheduled UL transmissions, and/or semi-persistent and/or aperiodic ULtransmission, configured grant (e.g., Type-1 or Type-2), etc. In asimilar note, when discussing timing relationships (e.g., earlier/laterthan, earliest/latest, between, etc.) for an UL transmission (physicaluplink shared channel (PUSCH)/physical uplink control channel(PUCCH)/sounding reference signal (SRS)/physical random access channel(PRACH), the intention is to denote the transmission time of (e.g.,first symbol or last symbol) of an UL transmission occasion.

New timing relationships are being considered for enhancing URLLCperformance in 5G NR Rel-16. In particular, the grant-to-transmissiongap timing (i.e., the number of symbols/slots after receiving an ULgrant DCI and before making an uplink transmission) may allowout-of-order scheduling for URLLC, such that, within a servingcell/uplink carrier, a later grant can schedule an earlier transmissioncompared to another earlier grant whose uplink transmission will occurlater than the transmission scheduled by the later grant. In otherwords, a second uplink grant DCI and the corresponding transmission (fora URLLC traffic) can both occur—that is, sandwiched—between a firstuplink grant DCI and the corresponding transmission for an eMMB type oftraffic. Such a feature may not be allowed in 5G NR Rel-15, but isconsidered to be supported for Rel-16, as can be seen in the followingagreed upon excerpt related to a prior proposal.

(3GPP RAN1 AH-1901)

For supporting the out-of-order PDSCH-to-HARQ and PDCCH-to-PUSCH betweentwo hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes on the activebandwidth part (BWP) of a given serving cell, the companies areencouraged to perform further analysis, including at least the followingaspects:

-   -   The details of the dropping rules if allowed    -   The conditions (if any) under which the UE is expected to        process the out-of-order channels

It can be verified that such an out-of-order scheduling between twodynamically scheduled uplink transmissions does not impact the powercontrol framework, including the TPC command accumulation, sinceout-of-order processing of TPC commands between a configured grant PUSCHtransmission and another dynamically scheduled PUSCH transmission isalready supported in Rel-15.

However, for power headroom report (PHR), new procedures in terms oftiming may be beneficial.

Timing Aspects of PHR

In LTE, for PHR in carrier aggregation (CA) operation, because of thefixed legacy timeline of n+4 (i.e., a PUSCH transmission occurs 4subframes after an UL grant DCI is received at subframe index n),actual/virtual PHR is simply defined based on whether there exists aPUSCH transmission or not in the subframe where PHR is reported.

However, re-use of this mechanism for NR may be problematic, due totimeline flexibility in NR: where the grant-to-transmission gap timing,referred to as slot-offset k2, belongs to a predefined/default set or issemi-statically configured to the user equipment (UE) and whose actualvalue is dynamically indicated in the time domain allocation part of theUL grant DCI. Therefore, determining whether a transmission occurs in acertain time slot depends on the time instance when the UE receives theUL grants DCIs (for dynamically scheduled grants). Accordingly,requiring the UE to fully determine all scheduled transmissions at acertain slot implies a “relatively tighter timeline situation” thatforces the UE to wait until the “last moment” to decide.

To avoid such relatively tighter timeline situations, it was agreed for5G NR Rel-15 that the UE sets the “PHR cut-off time” as the first ULgrant DCI (on any serving cell) following the PHR trigger that schedulesa new/initial transmission, so that all overlapping UL transmissions onother cells that are scheduled until or before the PHR cut-off timereport actual PHR, while all non-overlapping UL transmissions and alloverlapping UL transmissions on other cells that are scheduled after thePHR cut-off time report virtual PHR, such as with respect to a referenceformat. This is captured in the following text from [TS 38.213].

Excerpt from TS 38.213 Section 7.7 for Power Headroom Report

A UE determines whether a power headroom report for an activated servingcell [11, TS 38.321] is based on an actual transmission or a referenceformat based on the downlink control information the UE received untiland including the PDCCH monitoring occasion where the UE detects thefirst DCI format 0_0 or DCI format 0_1 scheduling an initialtransmission of a transport block since a power headroom report wastriggered.

If a UE

-   -   is configured with two UL carriers for a serving cell, and    -   determines a Type 1 power headroom report and a Type 3 power        headroom report for the serving cell

the UE

-   -   provides the Type 1 power headroom report if both the Type 1 and        Type 3 power headroom reports are based on respective actual        transmissions or on respective reference transmissions    -   provides the power headroom report that is based on a respective        actual transmission if either the Type 1 report or the Type 3        report is based on a respective reference transmission

If a UE is configured with a secondary cell group (SCG) andifphr-ModeOtherCG for a cell group (CG) indicates ‘virtual’ then, forpower headroom reports transmitted on the CG, the UE computes PHassuming that the UE does not transmit PUSCH/PUCCH on any serving cellof the other CG.

In addition, when computing an actual PHR in carrier aggregation (CA)operation, the UE considers all UL grants on all serving cells whosecorresponding PUSCHs overlap with the PUSCH that carries PHR and arescheduled before the PHR cut-off time (i.e., the first UL grant afterPHR time), where the computation is mainly in terms of how maximum powerreduction (MPR)/additional-maximum power reduction (A-MPR) and thecorresponding Pcmax values are calculated (e.g., for the case ofintra-band CA, where MPR/A-MPR are calculated jointly across componentcarriers (CC). Therefore, MPR/A-MPR and therefore Pcmax are NOTcalculated based on the PUSCH transmissions which are scheduled afterthe PHR cut-off time (again due to timeline reasons for computingMPR/A-MPR). This is captured in the following text of [TS 38.213].

Excerpt from TS 38.213 Section 7.7.1 for Type-1 PHR

If a UE is configured with multiple cells for PUSCH transmissions, theUE does not consider for computation of a Type 1 power headroom reportin a first PUSCH transmission that includes an initial transmission oftransport block on active UL BWP b₁ of carrier f₁ of serving cell c₁, asecond PUSCH transmission on active UL BWP b₂ of carrier f₂ of servingcell c₂ that overlaps with the first PUSCH transmission if

-   -   the second PUSCH transmission is scheduled by a DCI format 0_0        or a DCI format 0_1 in a PDCCH received in a second PDCCH        monitoring occasion, and    -   the second PDCCH monitoring occasion is after a first PDCCH        monitoring occasion where the UE detects the earliest DCI format        0_0 or DCI format 0_1 scheduling an initial transmission of a        transport block after a power headroom report was triggered

In the late stages of 5G NR Rel-15, 3GPP RAN2 working group decided thatconfigured grant (CG) uplink transmission can be also used to transmitthe PHR MAC-CE, in the case that a CG PUSCH that can accommodate PHRtransmission occurs earlier than any other dynamically scheduled PUSCHtransmission. A key issue when adopting CG-PUSCH to transmit the PHR wasto decide on the PHR cut-off time for the case of CG-PUSCH since in thiscase, there is no corresponding UL grant DCI. It was previously agreedthat, for the case of CG-PUSCH, the PHR cut-off time is defined as thestarting symbol of CG-PUSCH minus the minimum PUSCHprocessing/preparation procedure time as defined in [TS 38.214]. Thesedecisions are captured in the following specifications text from [TS38.321] and the corresponding RAN2 communications.

Excerpt from TS 38.321 Section 6.1.3.9 for Power Headroom Reporting

The MAC entity determines whether PH value for an activated Serving Cellis based on real transmission or a reference format by considering theconfigured grant(s) and downlink control information which has beenreceived until and including the PDCCH occasion in which the first ULgrant for a new transmission is received since a PHR has been triggeredif the PHR MAC CE is reported on an uplink grant received on the PDCCHor until the first uplink symbol of PUSCH transmission minus PUSCHpreparation time as defined in subclause 6.4 of TS 38.214 if the PHR MACCE is reported on a configured grant.

From CR R2-1818803 of RP-182658:

Clarification on PHR Timing for Configured Grant

The MAC entity determines whether PH value for an activated Serving Cellis based on real transmission or a reference format by considering theconfigured grant(s) and downlink control information which has beenreceived until and including the PDCCH occasion in which the first ULgrant for a new transmission is received since a PHR has been triggeredif the PHR MAC CE is reported on an uplink grant received on the PDCCHor until the first uplink symbol of PUSCH transmission minus PUSCHpreparation time as defined in subclause 6.4 of TS 38.214 if the PHR MACCE is reported on a configured grant.

From LS-out R2-1818807 LS on PHR timing

RAN2 noticed current PHR timing only covers dynamic grant with DCI,however it should be possible to send PHR via configured grant as well.

RAN2 would like to inform RAN1 that RAN2 made the following agreement onPHR timing:

The MAC entity determines whether PH value for an activated Serving Cellis based on real transmission or a reference format by considering theconfigured grant(s) and downlink control information which has beenreceived until and including the PDCCH occasion in which the first ULgrant for a new transmission is received since a PHR has been triggeredif the PHR MAC CE is reported on an uplink grant received on the PDCCHor until the first uplink symbol of PUSCH transmission minus PUSCHpreparation time as defined in subclause 6.4 of TS 38.214 if the PHR MACCE is reported on a configured grant.

RAN2 understood the timing for determining real or virtual PH is alsocaptured in physical layer specification, thus we would like to ask RAN1to update the corresponding text accordingly.

A further subtlety on the PHR cut-off time for CG-PUSCH in terms of theminimum PUSCH processing/preparation procedure time as defined in [TS38.214] is that this timing only applies to dynamically scheduled PUSCHtransmissions, so further details (such as clarification on BWPswitching time, etc.) would be beneficial for the case of CG-PUSCH toensure that the CG-PUSCH is the first/earliest UL resource for a newtransmission only after the latest possible overriding physical downlinkcontrol channel (PDCCH) occasion. A possible solution was brought as achange request (CR) to 3GPP RAN Plenary #82 (December 2018), as copiedbelow, but it was not agreed. It is expected that those changes getdiscussed and approved in 3GPP RAN1 #96 (February 2019). As forclarification of the details of the minimum PUSCH processing/preparationprocedure time, the corresponding specifications text is also copiedbelow from [TS 38.214].

Excerpt from RAN Plenary Minutes RAN #82

RP-182658 NR related CRs, part 10 RAN2

Replaces

The document was approved.

RP-182720 PHR timing for configured grant Nokia, Nokia Shanghai Bell,Lenovo, Motorola Mobility

Replaces RP-182706

company CR; this CR (for a RAN1 TS) is related to CR R2-1818803 ofRP-182658 and late LSout R2-1818807 (was only sent to RAN1); it wasfound in an offline discussion that a corresponding RAN1 38.213 CR ismissing/needed; this CR is provided here in RP-182720

Nokia: 2 options: either approve RAN1 CR here (fixes could still bedone) or kick it back to RAN1 (but then RAN1 and RAN2 specs are thenmisaligned for 1 quarter) LG: timing calculation is usually done in RAN1ZTE: CR was discussed on RAN1 reflector and some companies have stilltechnical concerns on this Intel: yes, has the same view as ZTE andsuggest to solve it in next RAN1 meeting Nokia: we prefer to keep theRAN2 part approved and solve the RAN1 part in March 19 Huawei: thequestion is what would be the consequence of this approach? If there isa serious impact on the system we should spend efforts to solve this.Nokia: it seems the corresponding RAN1 experts are not here

The document was postponed.

From the CR Enclosed in RP-182720

A UE determines whether a power headroom report for an activated servingcell [11, TS38.321] is based on an actual transmission or a referenceformat based on the configured grant(s) and downlink control informationthe UE received until and including the PDCCH monitoring occasion wherethe UE detects the first DCI format 0_0 or DCI format 0_1 scheduling aninitial transmission of a transport block since a power headroom reportwas triggered if the power headroom report is reported on a PUSCHtriggered by an uplink grant received on the PDCCH or until the firstuplink symbol of PUSCH transmission minus PUSCH preparation time asdefined in subclause 6.4 of TS 38.214 [6] if the power headroom reportis reported on a configured grant.

For the purpose of power headroom reporting T_(proc,2) is based onμ_(DL) corresponding to zo the subcarrier spacing of the active downlinkBWP of its scheduling cell and assuming d_(2,1)=1, d_(2,2)=0 if thepower headroom report is transmitted on a configured grant.

If a UE is configured with multiple cells for PUSCH transmissions, theUE does not consider for computation of a Type 1 power headroom reportin a first PUSCH transmission that includes an initial transmission oftransport block on active UL BWP b₁ of carrier f₁ of serving cell c₁, asecond PUSCH transmission on active UL BWP b₂ of carrier f₂ of servingcell c₂ that overlaps with the first PUSCH transmission if

-   -   the second PUSCH transmission is scheduled by a DCI format 0_0        or a DCI format 0_1 in a PDCCH received in a second PDCCH        monitoring occasion, and    -   the second PDCCH monitoring occasion is after a first PDCCH        monitoring occasion where the UE detects the earliest DCI format        0_0 or DCI format 0_1 scheduling an initial transmission of a        transport block after a power headroom report was triggered or        after the first uplink symbol of PUSCH transmission minus PUSCH        preparation time as defined in subclause 6.4 of TS 38.214 [6] if        the first PUSCH transmission is on a configured grant        Excerpt from TS 38.214 Section 6.4 for UE PUSCH Preparation        Procedure Time        6.4 UE PUSCH Preparation Procedure Time

If the first uplink symbol in the PUSCH allocation for a transportblock, including the DM-RS, as defined by the slot offset K₂ and thestart and length indicator SLIV of the scheduling DCI, is no earlierthan at symbol L₂, where L₂ is defined as the next uplink symbol withits CP startingT_(proc,2)=max((N₂+d_(2,1))(2048+144)·κ2^(−μ)·T_(c),d_(2,2)) after theend of the last symbol of the PDCCH carrying the DCI scheduling thePUSCH, then the UE shall transmit the transport block.

-   -   N₂ is based on p of Table 6.4-1 and Table 6.4-2 (reproduced as        FIGS. 2 and 3) for UE processing capability 1 and 2        respectively, where μ corresponds to the one of (μ_(DL), μ_(UL))        resulting with the largest T_(proc,2), where the μ_(DL)        corresponds to the subcarrier spacing of the downlink with which        the PDCCH carrying the DCI scheduling the PUSCH was transmitted        and μ_(UL) corresponds to the subcarrier spacing of the uplink        channel with which the PUSCH is to be transmitted, and κ is        defined in subclause 4.1 of [4, TS 38.211].    -   If the first symbol of the PUSCH allocation consists of DM-RS        only, then d_(2,1)=0, otherwise d_(2,1)=1.    -   If the UE is configured with multiple active component carriers,        the first uplink symbol in the PUSCH allocation further includes        the effect of timing difference between component carriers as        given in [11, TS 38.133].    -   If the scheduling DCI triggered a switch of BWP, d_(2,2) equals        to the switching time as defined in [11, TS 38.133], otherwise        d_(2,2)=0.    -   If the PUSCH indicated by the DCI is overlapping with one or        more PUCCH channels, then the transport block is multiplexed        following the procedure in subclause 9.2.5 of [9, TS 38.213],        otherwise the transport block is transmitted on the PUSCH        indicated by the DCI.        Otherwise the UE may ignore the scheduling DCI.        The value of T_(proc,2) is used both in the case of normal and        extended cyclic prefix.

Another aspect for PHR operation is to clarify the PUSCH transmissionthat carries the PHR. In general, it is understood that the UE shouldtransmit the PHR as soon as PHR is triggered and the UE has uplinkresources available for transmitting the PHR. For example, in terms oflogical channel prioritization (LCP) procedure and transport block (TB)size, processing timeline, etc., the UE should use the earliestavailable/possible PUSCH transmission to transmit the PHR. For example,this was a main reason why changes in the late stages of 5G NR Rel-15specifications time period were adopted that would allow/enforce the UEto transmit the PHR on a configured grant PUSCH (CG-PUSCH) if thatCG-PUSCH resource occurs earlier in time than any other/the firstdynamically scheduled PUSCH transmission after the PHR trigger.

On the other hand, it is usually assumed that PHR is not very timecritical. Therefore, even though there is normative text in [TS 38.321]saying that:

-   -   “If the MAC entity has UL resources allocated for a new        transmission the MAC entity shall, . . . , if the Power Headroom        reporting procedure determines that at least one PHR has been        triggered and not cancelled; and if the allocated UL resources        can accommodate the MAC CE for PHR which the MAC entity is        configured to transmit, plus its subheader, as a result of LCP        as defined in subclause 5.4.3.1, . . . , instruct the        Multiplexing and Assembly procedure to generate and transmit the        Multiple/Single Entry PHR MAC CE as defined in subclause        6.1.3.9/6.1.3.8 based on the values reported by the physical        layer”;        it is not really/precisely specified in which PUSCH the PHR MAC        CE is included. This specification text is intentionally        formulated a bit imprecise so that it leaves some freedom for        the UE implementation where to transmit the PHR MAC CE, such as        for example, which PUSCH resource to use for PHR MAC CE        inclusion. This has been also confirmed in a 3GPP RAN2 meeting        (common understanding among companies in RAN2). For the        scheduling performance, it is not very important on what exact        PUSCH resource the PHR MAC CE is transmitted as long as it is        clear to the eNB/gNB what information (e.g. DCI, CG PUSCH        allocations, TPC commands) UE used for the calculation of the        PHR. The network needs to know on what basis the PHR calculation        was done.

In practice, the UE typically knows based on DCI reception whether ULresources are available. Therefore, typically when DCI (granting ULresources for initial transmission) is received after PHR triggeringcondition is fulfilled, then UE includes PHR MAC CE in the PUSCH whichis associated to this DCI (as long as TB size allows to include PHR MACCE) per the following clause: “if the allocated UL resources canaccommodate the MAC CE for PHR which the MAC entity is configured totransmit, plus its subheader, as a result of LCP as defined in subclause5.4.3.1”. In other words, the UE has to decide before starting LCP for aPUSCH allocation whether to include a PHR MAC CE or not. PHR triggerconditions and PHR procedure, such as which PUSCH to use formultiplexing PHR, are specified in the following text from [TS 38.321].

Excerpt from TS 38.321 Section 5.4.6 for Power Headroom Reporting

5.4.6 Power Headroom Reporting

The Power Headroom reporting procedure is used to provide the servinggNB with the following information:

-   -   Type 1 power headroom: the difference between the nominal UE        maximum transmit power and the estimated power for UL-SCH        transmission per activated Serving Cell;    -   Type 2 power headroom: the difference between the nominal UE        maximum transmit power and the estimated power for UL-SCH and        PUCCH transmission on SpCell of the other MAC entity (i.e.        E-UTRA MAC entity in EN-DC case only);    -   Type 3 power headroom: the difference between the nominal UE        maximum transmit power and the estimated power for SRS        transmission per activated Serving Cell.

RRC controls Power Headroom reporting by configuring the followingparameters:

-   -   phr-PeriodicTimer;    -   phr-ProhibitTimer;    -   phr-Tx-PowerFactorChange;    -   phr-Type2OtherCell;    -   phr-ModeOtherCG;    -   multiplePHR.

A Power Headroom Report (PHR) shall be triggered if any of the followingevents occur:

-   -   phr-ProhibitTimer expires or has expired and the path loss has        changed more than phr-Tx-PowerFactorChange dB for at least one        activated Serving Cell of any MAC entity which is used as a        pathloss reference since the last transmission of a PHR in this        MAC entity when the MAC entity has UL resources for new        transmission;    -   NOTE 1: The path loss variation for one cell assessed above is        between the pathloss measured at present time on the current        pathloss reference and the pathloss measured at the transmission        time of the last transmission of PHR on the pathloss reference        in use at that time, irrespective of whether the pathloss        reference has changed in between.    -   phr-PeriodicTimer expires;    -   upon configuration or reconfiguration of the power headroom        reporting functionality by upper layers, which is not used to        disable the function;    -   activation of an SCell of any MAC entity with configured uplink;    -   addition of the PSCell (i.e. PSCell is newly added or changed);    -   phr-ProhibitTimer expires or has expired, when the MAC entity        has UL resources for new transmission, and the following is true        for any of the activated Serving Cells of any MAC entity with        configured uplink:        -   there are UL resources allocated for transmission or there            is a PUCCH transmission on this cell, and the required power            backoff due to power management (as allowed by P-MPR_(c) as            specified in TS 38.101-1 [14], TS 38.101-2 [15], and TS            38.101-3 [16]) for this cell has changed more than            phr-Tx-PowerFactorChange dB since the last transmission of a            PHR when the MAC entity had UL resources allocated for            transmission or PUCCH transmission on this cell.    -   NOTE 2: The MAC entity should avoid triggering a PHR when the        required power backoff due to power management decreases only        temporarily (e.g. for up to a few tens of milliseconds) and it        should avoid reflecting such temporary decrease in the values of        P_(CMAX,f,c)/PH when a PHR is triggered by other triggering        conditions.

If the MAC entity has UL resources allocated for a new transmission, theMAC entity shall:

-   -   1> if it is the first UL resource allocated for a new        transmission since the last MAC reset:        -   2> start phr-PeriodicTimer;    -   1> if the Power Headroom reporting procedure determines that at        least one PHR has been triggered and not cancelled; and    -   1> if the allocated UL resources can accommodate the MAC CE for        PHR which the MAC entity is configured to transmit, plus its        subheader, as a result of LCP as defined in subclause 5.4.3.1:        -   2> if multiplePHR is configured:            -   3> for each activated Serving Cell with configured                uplink associated with any MAC entity:                -   4> obtain the value of the Type 1 or Type 3 power                    headroom for the corresponding uplink carrier as                    specified in subclause 7.7 of TS 38.213 [6];                -   4> if this MAC entity has UL resources allocated for                    transmission on this Serving Cell; or                -   4> if the other MAC entity, if configured, has UL                    resources allocated for transmission on this Serving                    Cell and phr-ModeOtherCG is set to real by upper                    layers:                -    5> obtain the value for the corresponding                    P_(CMAX,f,c) field from the physical layer.            -   3> ifphr-Type2OtherCell is configured:                -   4> if the other MAC entity is E-UTRA MAC entity:                -    5> obtain the value of the Type 2 power headroom                    for the SpCell of the other MAC entity (i.e. E-UTRA                    MAC entity);                -    5> ifphr-ModeOtherCG is set to real by upper                    layers:                -    6> obtain the value for the corresponding                    P_(CMAX,f,c) field for the SpCell of the other MAC                    entity (i.e. E-UTRA MAC entity) from the physical                    layer.            -   3> instruct the Multiplexing and Assembly procedure to                generate and transmit the Multiple Entry PHR MAC CE as                defined in subclause 6.1.3.9 based on the values                reported by the physical layer.        -   2> else (i.e. Single Entry PHR format is used):            -   3> obtain the value of the Type 1 power headroom from                the physical layer for the corresponding uplink carrier                of the PCell;            -   3> obtain the value for the corresponding P_(CMAX,f,c)                field from the physical layer;            -   3> instruct the Multiplexing and Assembly procedure to                generate and transmit the Single Entry PHR MAC CE as                defined in subclause 6.1.3.8 based on the values                reported by the physical layer.        -   2> start or restart phr-PeriodicTimer;        -   2> start or restart phr-ProhibitTimer;        -   2> cancel all triggered PHR(s).        -   NOTE 3: For a band combination in which the UE does not            support dynamic power sharing, the UE may omit reporting            power headroom information for serving cells in the other            MAC entity.

Below we discuss exemplary embodiments for PHR timing aspects for thecase of out-of-order scheduling, which may be motivated by URLLCtraffic, and provide present proposals to handle the PHR cut-off time inthat case. Since this is a new topic in 5G NR Rel-16, there is no priorexisting solution related to this issue.

Enhancements to Inter UE Multiplexing

UL Pre-Emption Indication

Dynamic multiplexing between eMBB and URLLC traffic in the DL wasspecified in Rel-15 standard specifications. However, the question as tohow to multiplex UL traffic from UE and/or system perspective is stillopen.

For DLPI (DL pre-emption indication), DCI format 2_1 is used fornotifying the physical resource block(s) (PRB(s)) and orthogonalfrequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol(s) where UE may assume notransmission is intended for the UE.

The following information is transmitted by means of the DCI format 2_1with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by interruption radionetwork temporary identifier (INT-RNTI):

-   -   Pre-emption indication 1, Pre-emption indication 2, . . . ,        Pre-emption indication N. The size of DCI format 2_1 is        configurable by higher layers up to 126 bits, according to        Subclause 11.2 of [TS 38.213]. Each pre-emption indication is 14        bits. Interpretation of the 14-bit bitmap is configurable: each        bit represents either of        -   one OFDM symbol in the time domain and the full bandwidth            part in frequency domain, or            two OFDM symbols in the time domain and one half of the            bandwidth part in frequency domain. UE behavior upon            downlink preemption indication (DLPI) reception is            undefined.

As opposed to DLPI where number of resource blocks (RBs) in frequencydomain can change abruptly from one symbol to another symbol, in uplinkpreemption indication (ULPI), such abrupt changes are not desiredbecause of radio frequency (RF) limitations. Also, ULPI is differentthan DLPI as it is used to avoid UL interference, whereas in DL, gNB hasalready avoided the DL interference by selecting one out ofoverlapping/interfering DL transmissions.

UL cancelation (pre-emption) of an eMBB PUSCH transmission has beenproposed as a candidate for inter UE multiplexing (e.g., eMBB traffic ofUE1 and URLLC traffic of UE2) by others. The scheme has advantage ofensuring latency (and reliability) of the URLLC traffic by timely mutingthe eMBB traffic of another UE. The scheme can also be advantageous toeMBB UEs by letting them be scheduled over a wide bandwidth (instead ofsemi-static bandwidth split between URLLC UEs and eMBB UEs) and only getmuted if needed. However, there are costs and disadvantages associatedwith the scheme: (a) The UL cancelation indication (if explicitlyindicated) may need to be monitored quite frequently (at least when theUE has unacknowledged UL eMBB transmission or configured wideband SRStransmission) in a timely manner to be helpful in ensuring latency ofURLLC UEs; (b) the UL cancelation indication should have a highreliability; (c) UL cancelation indication can incur control overhead;(d) there could be eMBB UEs in a cell that are not capable of performingUL cancelation operation, which could hurt the URLLC performance ifoverlap. UL cancelation has been proposed with different flavors: forinstance, completely canceling eMBB PUSCH, resuming eMBB PUSCH aftercanceling a part of PUSCH, pausing eMBB PUSCH for a period of time orrescheduling eMBB PUSCH.

An alternative scheme for inter UE multiplexing, can include boostingtransmission power of URLLC UEs (in case of overlapping eMBBtransmission of other UEs). However, power boosting may not beapplicable to power limited UEs or may lead to increased inter cellinterference. A combination of UL cancelation (with some relaxation ofcancelation indication e.g., in terms of timeline, and monitoringfrequency) and power boosting may also be used to address inter UEmultiplexing.

In some cases, using an UL cancelation indication may be possible: forinstance, when all active eMBB UEs in a cell are capable of ULcancelation operation or when eMBB UEs that are not capable of ULcancelation operation are given non-overlapping resources with URLLCUEs) or when eMBB UEs can also have URLLC traffic (and hence wouldmonitor for URLLC DCI) or when a hybrid cancelation-power boostingtechnique is used.

Enhanced UL Power Control

Enhanced UL power control is considered as one potential enhancement forUL inter-UE Tx prioritization/multiplexing. The potential enhanced ULpower control may include the UE determining the power control parameterset (e.g. P₀, alpha) based on scheduling DCI indication without usingSRI, or based on group-common DCI indication. Increased TPC rangecompared to Rel-15 may also be considered. Power boosting is notapplicable to power limited UEs.

PUSCH Repetitions

In addition to slot-aggregation defined in NR Rel-15, wherein the sameTB is repeated over the same frequency and symbol indices in multipleslots, for URLLC, other TB repetition schemes with smaller delay havebeen proposed.

At least for scheduled PUSCH, for the option “One UL grant schedulingtwo or more PUSCH repetitions that can be in one slot, or across slotboundary in consecutive available slots” (also called as “mini-slotbased repetitions”), if supported, can further consist of:

-   -   Time domain resource determination        -   The time domain resource assignment field in the DCI            indicates the resource for the first repetition.        -   The time domain resources for the remaining repetitions are            derived based at least on the resources for the first            repetition and the UL/DL direction of the symbols.            -   for further study (FFS) the detailed interaction with                the procedure of UL/DL direction determination        -   Each repetition occupies contiguous symbols.        -   FFS whether/how to handle “orphan” symbols (the # of UL            symbols is not sufficient to carry one full repetition)    -   Frequency hopping (at least 2 hops)        -   Support at least inter-PUSCH-repetition hopping and            inter-slot hopping        -   FFS other frequency hopping (FH) schemes        -   FFS number of hops larger than 2    -   FFS dynamic indication of the number of repetitions    -   FFS DMRS sharing    -   FFS TBS determination (e.g. based on the whole duration, or        based on the first repetition)

At least for scheduled PUSCH, for the option “One UL grant schedulingtwo or more PUSCH repetitions in consecutive available slots, with onerepetition in each slot with possibly different starting symbols and/ordurations” (also called “multi-segment transmission”), if supported, itfurther consists of:

-   -   Time domain resource determination        -   The time domain resource assignment field in the DCI            indicates the starting symbol and the transmission duration            of all the repetitions.            -   FFS multiple SLIVs indicating the starting symbol and                the duration of each repetition            -   FFS details of SLIV, including the possibility of                modifying SLIV to support the cases with S+L>14.        -   FFS the interaction with the procedure of UL/DL direction            determination    -   For the transmission within one slot,        -   If there are more than one UL period within a slot (where            each UL period is the duration of a set of contiguous            symbols within a slot for potential UL transmission as            determined by the UE)            -   One repetition is within one UL period.                -   FFS if more than one UL period is used for the                    transmission (If more than one UL period is used,                    this would override the previous definition of this                    option.)                -   Each repetition occupies contiguous symbols        -   Otherwise, a single PUSCH repetition is transmitted within a            slot following Rel-15 behavior.    -   Frequency hopping        -   Support at least inter-slot FH        -   FFS other FH schemes

FFS TBS determination (e.g. based on the whole duration, or based on thefirst repetition, overhead assumption)

SRS Switching

From 38.331,

srs-SwitchFromServCellIndex Indicates the serving cell whose ULtransmission may be interrupted during SRS transmission on a PUSCH-lesscell. During SRS transmission on a PUSCH-less cell, the UE maytemporarily suspend the UL transmission on a serving cell with PUSCH inthe same CG to allow the PUSCH-less cell to transmit SRS.

PHR Enhancements for Out-of-Order Scheduling

As was previously mentioned above, for power headroom report (PHR) in CAoperation, it may be beneficial to clarify how actual/virtual PHR aredetermined, i.e., what is the PHR cut-off time for which overlapping ULtransmissions that are scheduled until or before the PHR cut-off timeactual PHR is reported, while all non-overlapping UL transmissions andall overlapping UL transmissions that are scheduled after the PHRcut-off time virtual PHR are reported. It was also noted that, the UE isgenerally supposed to transmit the PHR on the earliestavailable/possible PUSCH transmission after PHR trigger (in bothsingle-cell operation and CA operation).

In all embodiments, examples, and texts throughout this disclosure, an“earlier” UL/PUSCH transmission can refer to an UL/PUSCH transmissionthat starts earlier in time or ends earlier in time or both. Similarly,the “earliest” UL/PUSCH transmission among a number of UL/PUSCHtransmissions refers to a PUSCH transmission that starts the earliest intime or ends the earliest in time or both. In an example, theearlier/earliest PUSCH transmission can include repetitions (e.g.,mini-slot repetition, or multi-segment transmission) of a TB/UCI (incase of PUSCH without data).

For the case of out-of-order scheduling, however, the earliest availablePUSCH after PHR trigger on a serving cell/uplink carrier is notnecessarily the first scheduled PUSCH transmission on that servingcell/uplink carrier. Other than the possibility for a CG-PUSCH to be theearliest available PUSCH after PHR trigger, there is also a chance thata second/later DCI may schedule a second PUSCH transmission (e.g., forURLLC) which starts earlier than a first PUSCH transmission (e.g., foreMBB) that is scheduled by a first/earlier DCI following the PHRtrigger. It should be clarified whether a delay in transmitting the PHR(i.e., transmitting the PHR on the later PUSCH) is acceptable and/ordesirable, or if the UE may need to be forced or allowed to transmit thePHR as early as possible after a PHR trigger. In the latter case, it mayneed to be also clarified how the PHR cut-off time is (re-)defined, andthe impact on the UE processing timeline may need to be identified.Several proposed solutions can be considered as follows.

One can consider the benefits and disadvantages of changing the PHRcut-off time, so that a second earlier PUSCH (than a first PUSCHtransmission occasion) that is scheduled later (than the schedulinginstance for the first PUSCH transmission occasion) carries the PHRinstead of a first later PUSCH that is scheduled later on the sameserving cell/uplink carrier. One potential benefit is that the PHR isconveyed to the network earlier. The other potential benefit is toreport the PHR for the “out-of-order” PUSCH, which may be arguably moreimportant and may have higher priority (e.g., the URLLC), instead ofreporting the PHR for the “in-order” PUSCH which may be arguably lessimportant and may have lower priority (e.g., the eMBB) that would bereported based on the current/existing PHR cut-off time in Rel-15. Onefurther potential benefit of defining PHR cut-off time based on theearliest PUSCH instead of earliest DCI scheduling of a possibly laterPUSCH can be in case of using enhanced UL power control to addressinter-UE multiplexing issue. In such a case, if a URLLC UE can reportPHR as fast as possible, especially if the PHR shows there is little,zero or negative power headroom left, the gNB can use a different set ofresources (e.g., non-overlapping with eMBB) to schedule the URLLCtransmission, and use the enhanced power control schemes for the UEswith larger available power headroom.

A further use-case for re-defining the PHR cut-off time is to addressthe issue of uplink pre-emption that might be supported in 5G NR Rel-16in the context of

URLLC traffic and/or inter-UE multiplexing. On a related note, if thefirst/earliest DCI following PHR trigger corresponds to a firstscheduled PUSCH, and if UL pre-emption of the first scheduled PUSCH ispossible, there is a chance that later the UE gets an UL pre-emptionindication (UL-PI) for the first scheduled PUSCH (e.g., since the firstPUSCH corresponds to an eMBB traffic on a first serving cell which cancollide with URLLC traffic on second serving cell from the same UE, orcan even collide with URLLC traffic from another UE). It should beclarified when (via which PUSCH) PHR is transmitted, and whether/how thePHR cut-off time is (re-)defined.

-   -   In one embodiment, the PHR cut-off time can be the same as if        the first scheduled PUSCH is not canceled/pre-empted: e.g., PHR        cut-off time is defined based on the first DCI following PHR        trigger or based on first PUSCH minus PUSCH processing time        T_(proc,2). Using the same PHR cut-off time can be useful to        avoid PHR re-calculation. In an example, the PHR is transmitted        on the PUSCH scheduled by a second DCI. However, a potential        disadvantage for this option is that, the PHR report does not        match the PUSCH transmission which carries the PHR, which can        cause confusions at the network.    -   In another embodiment, the PHR cut-off time can be defined based        on the second PUSCH, e.g., based on the second DCI following PHR        trigger if UL-PI for the first scheduled PUSCH is sent after “X”        symbols from the first DCI; otherwise the PHR cut-off time may        be the same as if the first scheduled PUSCH is not canceled. ‘X’        can be indicated to the UE via e.g., RRC/MAC CE/physical layer        signaling or can be a UE capability. In an example, the PHR is        transmitted on the PUSCH scheduled by the second DCI.    -   In another embodiment, the PHR cut-off time can be defined based        on the second PUSCH, e.g., based on the second DCI following PHR        trigger if the first PUSCH is canceled prior to the reception of        the second DCI or the transmission of the second PUSCH minus an        offset (e.g., PUSCH processing time).

On the other hand, a change to PHR cut-off time could increase the UEcomplexity, which may not be very desirable. In addition, a potentialdisadvantage is that PHR MAC-CE bits might be multiplexed on the URLLCtraffic and use its (precious) resources, although PHR may be arguablyrather delay-tolerant, so no change may be needed (beyond the CR for thecase of CG-PUSCH as mentioned above).

In one example, the following embodiments and solutions on modifying thePHR cut-off time may be limited only to the case that a “high priorityPHR trigger” occurs, based on an ordering of priority levels for PHRtriggers. In one related example, a PHR trigger based on a significantpathloss change or significant power management/P-MPR change may beconsidered as a high priority PHR trigger, so modified/more aggressivePHR cut-off times may be applied for such PHR trigger. In anotherrelated example, a PHR trigger based on an expiration of periodic PHRtimer or activation of an SCell or addition/configuration of a PSCell or(re-)configuration of PHR functionality may be considered as lowpriority, for which modified/more aggressive PHR cut-off times may notbe applied. In one example, the PHR may be transmitted on the servingcell that caused the high priority PHR trigger, regardless of whether ornot a PUSCH on that serving cell is the earliest available/possiblePUSCH for initial transmission after PHR trigger, and therefore, the PHRcut-off time is set as the reception time for the UL DCI scheduling thePUSCH on that serving cell. In another example, the PHR may betransmitted based on one of the options described in the following inthis disclosure.

In one example, the following embodiments and proposed solutions onmodifying the PHR cut-off time apply to the case that the UEsupports/reports a UE capability for/is configured for out-of-orderscheduling and/or URLLC (e.g., based on semi-static configuration and/orUE capability and/or indication of URLLC grant (e.g., CRC scrambled by aspecific RNTI (e.g., MCS-C-RNTI), or a URLLC-specific DCI format (e.g.,compact DCI format)), indication of URLLC power boosting (e.g., in DCI),etc.).

In an embodiment, if the UE provides a Type 1 power headroom report in afirst PUSCH transmission in a slot of a first serving cell, the powerheadroom report for a second serving cell may be based on an actualtransmission (i.e., actual PHR) in the case that PUSCH repetition (viae.g., slot-aggregation as defined in NR Rel-15, or mini-slot repetition,or multi-segment transmission) may be transmitted on the second servingcell with at least one repetition of the PUSCH repetitions overlappingin time with the first PUSCH transmission in the first serving cell.

Conservative PHR Operation (First/Earliest DCI After PHR Trigger)

Embodiment 1: In one embodiment, the PHR cut-off time may be the same asin 5G NR Rel-15, i.e., the first/earliest DCI for an initialtransmission after PHR trigger if PHR is transmitted on a dynamicallyscheduled PUSCH (or first symbol of CG-PUSCH minus PUSCH processing timeas defined in [TS 38.214] if PHR is transmitted on a CG-PUSCH). It isunderstood that for this option, the UE may be allowed to choose adynamically scheduled PUSCH for carrying the PHR that is not necessarilythe earliest dynamically scheduled PUSCH after PHR trigger. Instead, adynamically scheduled PUSCH that corresponds to the first DCI after PHRtrigger (and is possibly transmitted later) may be used to transmit thePHR (provided there is no earlier CG-PUCSH transmission).

Aggressive PHR Operation (Earliest Available/Possible PUSCH After PHRTrigger)

Embodiment 2: In one embodiment, the PHR may be transmitted on theearliest available (or the earliest possible, as discussed below inNote-2) PUSCH transmission for an initial/new transmission that canaccommodate the MAC CE for PHR after PHR trigger. Accordingly, if PHR istransmitted on a dynamically scheduled PUSCH for an initialtransmission, the PHR cut-off time should correspond to the UL DCIassociated with the earliest possible PUSCH transmission for an initialtransmission after PHR trigger. Therefore, both [TS 38.213] and [TS38.321] specifications regarding PHR cut-off time could be updatedaccordingly, e.g., as follows. It is understood that in this option, theUE should not start the TB generation process/PHR calculation before thelatest possible (out-of-order) DCI in the “monitoring/search” timeperiod has been received.

In a related embodiment, if the PHR cut-off time is derived based on theearliest available/possible PUSCH transmission (e.g., in case ofconfigured grant), the earliest available/possible PUSCH transmissionmay not include a PUSCH transmission on a carrier whose UL transmissionmay be interrupted during SRS transmission on a PUSCH-less cell at leastwhen SRS is transmitted on the PUSCH-less cell resulting in temporarysuspension of the PUSCH transmission.

<START Text Proposal for TS 38.213 Section 7.7>

A UE determines whether a power headroom report for an activated servingcell [11, TS 38.321] is based on an actual transmission or a referenceformat based on the downlink control information the UE received untiland including the PDCCH monitoring occasion where the UE detects a DCIformat 0_0 or DCI format 0_1 scheduling an earliest initial transmissionof a transport block since a power headroom report was triggered if thepower headroom report is reported on a PUSCH triggered by an uplinkgrant received on the PDCCH or until the first uplink symbol of PUSCHtransmission minus PUSCH preparation time as defined in subclause 6.4 ofTS 38.214 [6] if the power headroom report is reported on a configuredgrant.

For the purpose of power headroom reporting T_(proc,2) is based onμ_(DL) corresponding to so the subcarrier spacing of the active downlinkBWP of its scheduling cell and assuming d_(2,1)=1, d_(2,2)=0 if thepower headroom report is transmitted on a configured grant.

If a UE is configured with multiple cells for PUSCH transmissions, theUE does not consider for computation of a Type 1 power headroom reportin a first PUSCH transmission that includes an initial transmission oftransport block on active UL BWP b₁ of carrier f₁ of serving cell c₁, asecond PUSCH transmission on active UL BWP b₂ of carrier f₂ of servingcell c₂ that overlaps with the first PUSCH transmission if

-   -   the second PUSCH transmission is scheduled by a DCI format 0_0        or a DCI format 0_1 in a PDCCH received in a second PDCCH        monitoring occasion, and    -   the second PDCCH monitoring occasion is after a first PDCCH        monitoring occasion where the UE detects a DCI format 0_0 or DCI        format 0_1 scheduling an earliest initial transmission of a        transport block after a power headroom report was triggered or        after the first uplink symbol of PUSCH transmission minus PUSCH        preparation time as defined in subclause 6.4 of TS 38.214 [6] if        the first PUSCH transmission is on a configured grant.        <END Text Proposal for TS 38.213 Section 7.7>

Note-1: The above change to specification for the PHR cut-off time maybe sufficient for the case of single entry PHR (i.e., single carrieroperation). In such a case, the UE implementation can determine theearliest PUSCH after PHR trigger without any confusion, e.g., asfollows.

-   -   In one example, once the UE has received a first/earliest UL DCI        for initial transmission after PHR trigger, the UE will wait        until:        -   the first symbol of the PUSCH transmission corresponding to            that first/earliest UL DCI after PHR trigger (to be called            here “the first PUS CH”);        -   minus a number of symbols equal to (i) the minimum of one or            more of default, common, dedicated configured k2 value            (i.e., DCI-to-PUSCH time) in symbols in the PUSCH time            domain resource allocation table entries OR (ii) the minimum            PUSCH processing/preparation time T_(proc,2) as defined in            [TS 38.214] for that serving cell.    -   Then, during this monitoring/search time period:        -   If some UL DCI is received that schedules another PUSCH for            initial transmission (to be called here “the second PUSCH”)            that is earlier than the first PUSCH, the UE will transmit            the PHR on the second/earlier PUSCH and will consider the            PHR cut-off time as the second/later DCI. In case of            multiple such UL DCIs, the earliest PUSCH transmission is            used to transmit the PHR and the corresponding UL DCI is            considered as the PHR cut-off time.            -   In an example, the earliest PUSCH transmission includes                repetitions (e.g., mini-slot repetition, or                multi-segment transmission) of a TB/UCI (in case of                PUSCH without data)        -   If no other UL DCI for initial transmission is received or            if all UL DCIs that are received schedule PUSCHs for initial            transmissions that are not earlier than the first PUSCH,            then UE will transmit the PHR on the first PUSCH and will            consider the PHR cut-off time as the earliest DCI.        -   Provided, in both cases, that there is no earlier            configured-grant PUSCH transmission.        -   In one example, the UE restricts the search for out-of-order            scheduled UL DCIs for initial PUSCH transmissions only to            the serving cell on which the first UL DCI for initial PUSCH            transmission is received.

Note-2: The above proposed change to specification for the PHR cut-offtime may or may not be sufficient for the case of multiple entry PHR(i.e., carrier aggregation “CA” operation). Depending on the scenariodetails, the UE implementation may be able to determine the earliestavailable PUSCH for initial transmission after PHR trigger without anyconfusion, or the UE may have ambiguities in determining the earliestPUSCH for initial transmission after PHR trigger, e.g., as captured inthe following examples:

-   -   In one example, if the values for the minimum of one or more of        default, common, dedicated configured DCI-to-PUSCH time k2        across different serving cells are the same (or if the values        for the minimum PUSCH processing/preparation time as defined in        [TS 38.214] across different serving cells are the same. In some        examples, the PUSCH processing/preparation time may be computed        assuming the worst case settings for some of the parameters such        as d_(2,1)=1), then the UE implementation is able to determine        the earliest PUSCH after PHR trigger without any ambiguity using        the same approach as described above for the single carrier        case, since the end time for        -   the “monitoring/search” time period to search for any            potential out-of-order UL DCIs for initial PUSCH            transmissions on all serving cells may be the same. The PHR            cut-off time may also be defined similarly as the DCI for            that earliest PUSCH for initial transmission after the PHR            trigger.    -   Embodiment 2-1:    -   In another example, if the values for the minimum of one or more        of default, common, dedicated configured DCI-to-PUSCH time k2        across different serving cells are different (or if the values        for the minimum PUSCH processing/preparation time as defined in        [TS 38.214] across different serving cells are different. In        some examples, the PUSCH processing/preparation time may be        computed assuming the worst case settings for some of the        parameters such as d_(2,1)=1), then the UE may have difficulty        to find the earliest available PUSCH transmission after PHR        trigger, since out-of-order UL DCIs for initial PUSCH        transmissions can be possibly still received on a serving cell        even after the “monitoring/search” time period has ended on        another serving cell. This is further elaborated in some        examples below.        -   In a related example, the UE may decide too early on a            certain PUSCH transmission on a certain serving cell (e.g.,            a serving cell with large minimum of one or more of default,            common, dedicated configured k2 value or with large minimum            PUSCH processing/preparation time T_(proc,2)) as the            earliest available PUSCH for initial transmission after PHR            trigger, although there is an earlier PUSCH for initial            transmission that is later scheduled on another serving cell            (e.g., a serving cell with small minimum of one or more of            default, common, dedicated configured k2 value or with small            minimum PUSCH processing/preparation time T_(proc,2)), so            the PHR is not reported on the earliest available PUSCH            transmission after PHR trigger.        -   In another related example, the UE may wait too long to            check for potentially earlier PUSCH for initial            transmissions after PHR trigger on some serving cells (e.g.,            serving cells with small minimum of one or more of default,            common, dedicated configured k2 value or with small minimum            PUSCH processing/preparation time T_(proc,2)), but no PUSCH            transmission is actually scheduled on those serving cells,            while the processing for another PUSCH transmission on            another serving cell (e.g., a serving cell with large            minimum of one or more of default, common, dedicated            configured k2 value or with large minimum PUSCH            processing/preparation time T_(proc,2)) is already started,            so that the opportunity to report PHR on that early PUSCH            transmission is lost.

In such cases, it appears that the UE may not be necessarily able toalways correctly identify the earliest available PUSCH for initialtransmission after PHR trigger. Rather, the UE may need to limit its“monitoring/search” time window and transmit the PHR on the earliestpossible PUSCH for initial transmission after PHR trigger. Below, wegive two example definitions (Alt-1 and Alt-2) for the earliest possiblePUSCH transmission.

<START Text Proposal for TS 38.213 Section 7.7>

A UE determines whether a power headroom report for an activated servingcell [11, TS 38.321] is based on an actual transmission or a referenceformat based on the downlink control information the UE received untiland including the PDCCH monitoring occasion where the UE detects a DCIformat 0_0 or DCI format 0_1 scheduling an earliest possible initialtransmission of a transport block since a power headroom report wastriggered if the power headroom report is reported on a PUSCH triggeredby an uplink grant received on the PDCCH or until the first uplinksymbol of PUSCH transmission minus PUSCH preparation time as defined insubclause 6.4 of TS 38.214 [6] if the power headroom report is reportedon a configured grant. For the purpose of power headroom reportingT_(proc,2) is based on μ_(DL) corresponding to the subcarrier spacing ofthe active downlink BWP of its scheduling cell and assuming d_(2,1)=1,d_(2,2)=0 if the power headroom report is transmitted on a configuredgrant.

-   -   Alt-1: “The earliest possible initial transmission of a        transport block since a power headroom report was triggered” is        defined as the earliest PUSCH transmission occasion for an        initial transmission of a transport block that is scheduled [on        any serving cell] on or before:        -   the first symbol of a PUSCH transmission occasion in a            serving cell corresponding to the PDCCH monitoring occasion            where the UE detects the earliest DCI format 0_0 or DCI            format 0_1 scheduling an initial transmission of a transport            block since a power headroom report was triggered;        -   minus the minimum common/dedicated configured k2 value for            that serving cell;    -   provided there is no earlier configured grant transmission.    -   Alt-2: “The earliest possible initial transmission of a        transport block since a power headroom report was triggered” is        defined as the earliest PUSCH transmission occasion for an        initial transmission of a transport block that is scheduled [on        any serving cell] on or before:        -   the first symbol of a PUSCH transmission occasion in a            serving cell corresponding to the PDCCH monitoring occasion            where the UE detects the earliest DCI format 0_0 or DCI            format 0_1 scheduling an initial transmission of a transport            block since a power headroom report was triggered;        -   minus the minimum PUSCH processing/preparation time as            defined in [TS 38.214] for that serving cell;    -   provided there is no earlier configured grant transmission.        . . .

If a UE is configured with multiple cells for PUSCH transmissions, theUE does not consider for computation of a Type 1 power headroom reportin a first PUSCH transmission that includes an initial transmission oftransport block on active UL BWP b₁ of carrier f₁ of serving cell c₁, asecond PUSCH transmission on active UL BWP b₂ of carrier f₂ of servingcell c₂ that overlaps with the first PUSCH transmission if

-   -   the second PUSCH transmission is scheduled by a DCI format 0_0        or a DCI format 0_1 in a PDCCH received in a second PDCCH        monitoring occasion, and    -   the second PDCCH monitoring occasion is after a first PDCCH        monitoring occasion where the UE detects a DCI format 0_0 or DCI        format 0_1 scheduling an earliest possible initial transmission        of a transport block after a power headroom report was triggered        or after the first uplink symbol of PUSCH transmission minus        PUSCH preparation time as defined in subclause 6.4 of TS 38.214        [6] if the first PUSCH transmission is on a configured grant.        <END Text Proposal for TS 38.213 Section 7.7>

In one example, the UE might restrict the search for out-of-orderscheduled UL DCIs for initial PUSCH transmissions only to the servingcell on which the first UL DCI for initial PUSCH transmission isreceived.

Balanced PHR Operation (Based on UE Capability and/or gNB Configurationon PHR Timeline/Cut-Off Time)

Embodiment 3-1: In one embodiment, how much to delay the decision on theselection of which PUSCH transmission after the PHR trigger to be usedfor PHR multiplexing is up to a UE capability on PHR timeline reportedby the UE and/or gNB configuration or is predetermined and fixed in thespecifications. Accordingly, the PHR cut-off time also corresponds tothe PUSCH transmission that is selected for PHR transmission based onthis UE capability and/or gNB configuration or the predetermined/fixedvalue in the specifications. The reported UE capability and/or gNBconfiguration or the predetermined/fixed value in the specifications canbe cell-specific (i.e., per serving cell), or per frequency band, orUE-specific (i.e., per UE, across all serving cells), or a combinationthereof.

In one example, the UE could report a PHR timeline UE capability as anumber of [X] symbols/slots after an UL DCI or as a number of [Y]symbols/slots before a PUSCH transmission to be the latest time by whichthe UE can decide on which PUSCH transmission to transmit the PHR. Forexample, the value of [X] is larger than or equal to zero, and it issmaller than the minimum of one or more of default, common, dedicatedconfigured k2 value for a serving cell (if UE capability is percell/band) or smaller than the smallest minimum of one or more ofdefault, common, dedicated configured k2 values across all serving cells(if UE capability is per UE). For another example, the value of [Y] islarger than the minimum PUSCH proc/prep time T_(proc,2) as defined in[TS 38.214] and smaller than the minimum of one or more of default,common, dedicated configured k2 value for a serving cell (if UEcapability is per cell/band) or smaller than the largest (or smallest inanother example) minimum of one or more of default, common, dedicatedconfigured k2 values (in symbols) across all serving cells (if UEcapability is per UE). Similarly, the gNB can configure the parameter[X] and/or [Y] as defined above. In one example, the UE reports a PHRtimeline UE capability for parameters [X] and/or [Y], and then thenetwork configures parameters [X] and/or [Y] based on the reported UEcapability.

In another example, the parameters [X] and/or [Y] are predetermined andfixed in the specifications.

In one example, the PHR timeline/PHR cut-off time (regardless of whethera UE capability and/or gNB configuration or predetermined/fixed in thespecifications) can be much less stringent than the (smallest) minimumPUSCH processing/preparation time or the (smallest) minimum of one ormore of default, common, dedicated configured k2.

It is understood that in this option, the UE should not start the TBgeneration process/PHR calculation before the latest possible(out-of-order) DCI in the “monitoring/search” time period per PHRtimeline (based on UE capability and/or gNB configuration orpredetermined/fixed timing in the specifications) has arrived.

-   -   In a related example, once the UE has received a first/earliest        UL DCI after PHR trigger that schedules a PUSCH for an initial        transmission of a new transport block (to be called here “the        first PUSCH”), the UE will start a monitoring/search time period        for other potential (out-of-order) UL DCI(s) that schedule        initial transmission(s) of new transport block(s) until:        -   The last symbol of the PDCCH monitoring occasion where the            UE detects the first/earliest DCI format 0_0 or DCI format            0_1 scheduling an initial transmission of a transport block            since a power headroom report was triggered;        -   Plus [X] symbols per the reported PHR timeline UE            capability.    -   Then, during this monitoring/search time period:        -   If some UL DCI is received on any serving cell that            schedules another PUSCH for an initial transmission of a new            transport block (to be called here “the second PUSCH”) that            starts earlier (in another example, ends earlier or starts            and ends earlier) than the first PUSCH, the UE will transmit            the PHR on the second/earlier PUSCH and will consider the            PHR cut-off time as the second/later DCI. In case of            multiple such UL DCIs, the earliest PUSCH transmission (in            another example, the PUSCH transmission that ends the            earliest or PUSCH transmission that starts and ends the            earliest) is used to transmit the PHR and the corresponding            DCI is considered as the PHR cut-off time.        -   If no other UL DCI is received on any serving cell that            schedules another PUSCH for an initial transmission of a new            transport block or if all UL DCIs that are received on all            serving cells for initial transmission(s) of new transport            block(s) schedule PUSCH transmissions that start after the            first symbol of the first PUSCH (in another example, PUSCH            transmission that ends earlier than the last symbol of the            first PUSCH), then the UE will transmit the PHR on the first            PUSCH and will consider the PHR cut-off time as the earliest            DCI.        -   Provided, in both cases, that there is no earlier            configured-grant PUSCH transmission.        -   In one example, the UE restricts the search for out-of-order            scheduled UL DCIs for initial PUSCH transmissions only to            the serving cell on which the first UL DCI for initial PUSCH            transmission is received.    -   In another related example, once the UE has received a        first/earliest UL DCI after PHR trigger that schedules a PUSCH        for an initial transmission of a new transport block (to be        called here “the first PUSCH”), the UE will start a monitoring        time period for other potential UL DCI(s) that schedule initial        transmission(s) of new transport block(s) until:        -   The first symbol of the first PUSCH;        -   Minus [Y] symbols per the reported PHR timeline UE            capability.    -   Then, during this monitoring time period:        -   If some UL DCI is received on any serving cell that            schedules another PUSCH for an initial transmission of a new            transport block (to be called here “the second PUSCH”) that            starts earlier (in another example, ends earlier or starts            and ends earlier) than the first PUSCH, the UE will transmit            the PHR on the second/earlier PUSCH and will consider the            PHR cut-off time as the second/later DCI. In case of            multiple such UL DCIs, the earliest PUSCH transmission (in            another example, the PUSCH transmission than ends the            earliest or PUSCH transmission that starts and ends the            earliest) is used to transmit the PHR and the corresponding            DCI is considered as the PHR cut-off time.        -   If no other UL DCI is received on any serving cell that            schedules another PUSCH for an initial transmission of a new            transport block or if all UL DCIs that are received on all            serving cells for initial transmission(s) of new transport            block(s) schedule PUSCH transmissions that start after the            first symbol of the first PUSCH (in another example, PUSCH            transmission that ends earlier than the last symbol of the            first PUSCH), then UE will transmit the PHR on the first            PUSCH and will consider the PHR cut-off time as the earliest            DCI.        -   Provided, in both cases, that there is no earlier            configured-grant PUSCH transmission.        -   In one example, the UE restricts the search for out-of-order            scheduled UL DCIs for initial PUSCH transmissions only to            the serving cell on which the first UL DCI for initial PUSCH            transmission is received.

In one example, the monitoring/search time window for findingout-of-order initial PUSCH transmission is relaxed, so that PHR cut-offtime may be moved to minimum PUSCH preparation time+delta, where deltais a parameter depending on the UE capability and/or gNB configurationor is predetermined and fixed in the specification (e.g., 1 symbol at 15kHz subcarrier spacing).

Balanced PHR Operation (Based on LCP Timing for PHR Timeline/PHR Cut-OffTime)

Another variant of a balanced solution for PHR operation timeline in thecase of out-of-order scheduling is based on LCP timing which is based onUE implementation.

Embodiment 3-2: In one embodiment, PHR cut-off time may be determined atthe starting/ending time of the LCP of the PUSCH corresponding toreception time of the first/earliest UL DCI for initial transmission ofa transport block after the PHR trigger. If, by that time instance, nonew further UL DCI for initial transmission of a transport block isreceived or some new UL DCI for initial transmission is received butthey schedule initial PUSCH transmission occasions that occur later thanthe PUSCH transmission occasion corresponding to the first UL DCI, thenthe UE sets the PHR cut-off time as in Rel-15 (i.e., the reception timeof the first/earliest UL DCI for initial transmission of a transportblock after the PHR trigger). However, if, by that time instance, a newfurther UL DCI is received that schedules an initial PUSCH transmissionoccasion that occurs earlier than the PUSCH transmission occasioncorresponding to the first/earliest UL DCI, then the earlier PUSCH canbe used for

PHR transmission and the reception time of the corresponding UL DCI canbe used as the PHR cut-off time. In the case of multiple such earliertransmission occasions, the UE uses the earliest PUSCH transmissionoccasion, and sets the PHR cut-off time based on the reception time ofthe corresponding UL DCI. (All provided there is no earlier configuredgrant PUSCH transmission).

Transmitting Multiple PHRs

Embodiment 4: In one embodiment, the UE is allowed to reporttwo/multiple PHRs for an out-of-order scheduling occasion in the case ofa new PHR trigger, as described in the following:

-   -   1. The MAC entity of the UE has generated a PHR MAC CE for a        first PUSCH and transmitted it to the PHY (Layer 1), but has not        yet transmitted the first PUSCH which includes the PHR MAC CE.    -   2. Before phr-PeriodicTimer and phr-ProhibitTimer are restarted        or after they are restarted and running, if a new PHR is        triggered since the path loss has increased more than        phr-Tx-PowerFactorChange dB for at least one activated Serving        Cell of any MAC entity which is used as a path loss reference        since the last transmission of a PHR in this MAC entity and if        the MAC entity has another UL resource for new transmission        (i.e., a second PUSCH) which is earlier than the first PUSCH,        the UE does not cancel the new triggered PHR but additionally        transmits a second actual PHR (based on the second PUSCH        transmissions) on the second (URLLC) PUSCH, and taking the PHR        cut-off time to be the UL DCI corresponding to the second PUSCH.        In one example, the second PUSCH transmission is scheduled by a        PDCCH with CRC scrambled by MCS-C-RNTI.    -   3. Before phr-PeriodicTimer and phr-ProhibitTimer are restarted        or after they are restarted and running, if a new PHR is        triggered since there are UL resources allocated for        transmission (i.e., a second PUSCH) which is earlier than the        first PUSCH or there is a PUCCH transmission on an activated        serving cell of the MAC entity, and the required power backoff        due to power management (as allowed by P-MPR_(c) as specified in        [TS 38.101-1], [TS 38.101-2], and [TS 38.101-3]) for this cell        has changed more than phr-Tx-PowerFactorChange dB since the last        transmission of a PHR when the MAC entity had UL resources        allocated for transmission or PUCCH transmission on this cell,        then the UE does not cancel the new triggered PHR but        additionally transmits a second actual PHR (based on the second        PUSCH transmissions) on the second (URLLC) PUSCH, and taking the        PHR cut-off time to be the UL DCI corresponding to the second        PUSCH. In one example, the second PUSCH transmission is        scheduled by a PDCCH with CRC scrambled by MCS-C-RNTI.

This can allow UE to inform gNB of path loss degradation and/or powermanagement (P-MPR) change quickly when URLLC UL transmission wasscheduled.

In another embodiment, such a UE behavior to report two/multiple PHRsfor an out-of-order scheduling occasion is allowed regardless of a newPHR trigger, since UL pre-emption/out-of-order scheduling may not happenregularly. In this option, the UE reports two PHR MAC CEs for the casethat first DCI/PUSCH is “Pre-empted” by a later DCI. Basically the UEmay have already started the TB generation process/PHR calculation whena later (out-of-order) DCI for initial PUSCH transmission is received.In that case, in order not to force the UE to redo the LCP procedure/TBgeneration, the UE may be allowed to include PHR MAC CE in the PUSCHaccording to the first received DCI as well as to include an additional(more up-to-date) PHR MAC CE in the second PUSCH associated with thelater (out-of-order) received DCI for initial PUSCH transmission (of atransport block). In this case, the gNB will be aware of this (since thegNB has issued the DCIs) and should be able to filter out the first PHRMAC CE.

In an embodiment, the Phr cut-off time can be extended to “t2” (from thecut-off time defined in Rel-15, which can be labeled as “t1”), if the UEreceives a PDCCH after “t1” not after the ‘x’ symbols/seconds.

In another embodiment, the Phr cut-off time can be extended to “t2”(from the cut-off time defined in Rel-15, which can be labeled as “t1”associated with a first PDCCH), if the UE receives a PDCCH canceling(completely or partially (e.g., if more than certain number of symbolsof the PUSCH are canceled) preempting) the PUSCH scheduled by the firstPDCCH (determining ‘t1’).

In another embodiment, a Phr after triggered, can be sent in a firstPUSCH (e.g., corresponding to a first PDCCH and a first cut-off time)and in a second PUSCH (e.g., corresponding to a second PDCCH and asecond cut-off time)

-   -   In an example, first and second cut-off times are the same    -   In an example, the second cut-off time is determined based on        the second PDCCH/PUSCH    -   In an example, the phr-prohibit timer is not reset after the        first phr transmission but after certain time from the first phr        transmission (e.g., to potentially allow additional phr        transmissions)        Power Control Enhancement for Inter-UE Multiplexing

To achieve a high reliability, URLLC PUSCH transmission may be repeatedmultiple times e.g., via mini-slot repetition or multi-segmenttransmission. Depending on when an eMBB PUSCH of another UE, withoverlapping resources with those of the URLLC UE starts, boosting theURLLC UE's transmission power for all repetitions may not be a goodidea. Noting that higher URLLC transmit power may lead to inter-cellinterference for UEs in neighbor cells, and in slots that URLLC and eMBBUEs do not overlap, there may be no need for the URLLC UE to boost itstransmission power. This issue can be more pronounced if the UE usesmultiple carriers, and unnecessarily using transmission power on onecarrier may lead to dropping of transmission on other carriers (thosecarriers may also have URLLC traffic not overlapping with any eMBB) dueto insufficient remaining power.

In particular, TPC methods are disclosed to enable efficient (e.g., interms of URLLC decoding performance, URLLC battery consumption, avoidingdropping URLLC traffic on other cells, creating less inter-cellinterference etc.) URLLC transmission when URLLC and eMBB UEs areassigned overlapping time/frequency resources. Upon, reception of aspecial power control command (e.g., a power control command withspecific command fields having certain values), the methods include:

-   -   1. Determination of a set of power adjustments for multiple        mini-slots/segments of URLLC transmission        -   a. TPC command indicates for which of the            repetitions/mini-slots/segments (or slots corresponding to a            segment) the indicated power boost is applicable. In one            example, the special additional power boost may be only            applied to repetition/mini-slots within the slot            corresponding to the received PDCCH with the power boost.            -   i. In one example, when UE is configured in TPC                accumulation mode, the UE does not accumulate the                special TPC, but only the normal TPC command in the DCI.                In one example, the special TPC may be a separate bit                field (for example, indicate no additional power boost,                or a power boost of P dB, where P can be a predetermined                value in the specification, or configured by higher                layers) than the normal TPC command bit field. In                another example, the TPC bit field may be extended to                say 3-bits to indicate the additional power boost with                certain TPC states, for example as shown in Table 1—the                accumulated TPC value corresponding to normal operation                is shown which is the value that is accumulated without                the additional power boost P dB factor.            -   ii. In an example, the special additional power boost                may be only applied to repetition/mini-slots to the                first scheduled slot. In another example, a field in the                special power boost command indicates for which                repetitions/segments/mini-slots, the command is                applicable, for instance, the field includes the number                of repetitions/segments/mini-slots starting from the                first repetition/segment/mini-slot. In another example,                a one bit indication, indicates if the special power                boost is applicable to all of the                repetitions/segments/mini-slots or only to the ones in                the first scheduled slot/within the slot corresponding                to the received PDCCH with the power boost. In another                example, if DMRS is shared amongst multiple                repetitions/segments/mini-slots, the same transmission                power is used for those repetitions/segments/mini-slots.                In another example, if repetitions/segments/mini-slots                of a PUSCH transmission be allowed to be postponed when                conflicting with DL symbols, the special power boost is                not applied to the postponed transmissions or                alternatively applied to the postponed transmissions                only if they are not postponed to a new slot.

A table 400 is illustrated in FIG. 4, which identifies an exemplaryassociation of a value of a separate bit field of a transmit powercontrol command with an additional power boost value and a change whichcan be applied to an accumulated power value.

-   -   A TPC command can indicate power boost (indicated by the special        power control command) is disabled for all of the        repetitions/mini-slots/segments    -   The special power control command can indicate the same power        boost for all repetitions; however, the gNB may send a future        TPC command to change the transmission power boost (e.g.,        de-activate the boost) for the rest of repetitions.    -   2. Updating the power control adjustment state, “f” in the power        control formula (up to maximum allowed value (P_cmax)) if at the        previous PUSCH transmission occasion, the transmission power had        reached to maximum transmission limit (Pc, max).    -   Note: According to TS 38.213: the UE, upon reception of a TPC        command, may not change the power control adjustment state, “f”        in the power control formula if at the previous PUSCH        transmission occasion, the transmission power had reached a        maximum transmission limit (Pc, max).    -   If the UE has reached maximum power for active UL BWP b of        carrier f of serving cell c at PUSCH transmission occasion i−i₀        and

${{\sum\limits_{m = 0}^{{c{(D_{i})}} - 1}{\delta_{{PUSCH}\;,b,f,c}\left( {m,l} \right)}} \geq 0},{{{then}\mspace{14mu}{f_{b,f,c}\left( {i,l} \right)}} = {f_{b,f,c}\left( {{i - i_{0}},l} \right)}}$

-   -   -   In a related embodiment, if at the previous PUSCH            transmission occasion, the transmission power had reached a            maximum transmission limit (Pc, max), at the current PUSCH            transmission occasion, ‘f’ is            -   Updated upon reception of the special power control                command;            -   Not updated (following Rel-15 rule above); otherwise

This disclosure discusses some of the new PC and PHR aspects for URLLCtraffic and provides proposals for those new aspects. In particular,proposals are disclosed for the following issues:

-   -   Timing aspects of power headroom report (PHR) operation for        out-of-order scheduling,        -   including: whether and/or how to modify the PHR “cut-off            time” and possibly the selection of the PUSCH transmission            that carries the PHR.    -   Power control enhancements for inter-UE multiplexing        -   including: mechanisms for dynamic power boosting via TPC            command indication, etc.

According to some embodiments, PHR timing are as follows:

-   -   Conservative PHR timeline: report PHR on the PUSCH corresponding        to earliest DCI (even if it is not the earliest PUSCH). The PHR        cut-off time as in Rel-15.    -   Aggressive PHR timeline: report PHR on the earliest        available/earliest possible PUSCH. The PHR cut-off time is the        reception time of the corresponding UL DCI/time-reference.        -   “earliest available” means the ultimate earliest. It can be            identified without confusion only for the case of same            min{k2} or {T_proc,2} equal across all cells        -   “earliest possible” can mean the earliest within the best            possible monitoring/search time window—which is the min{k2}            for the cell that receives the earliest UL grant        -   Considering TA aspects:            -   If (min{k2}) values are different across cells, then use                a function of min{k2} values such as the largest                (maximum) value of min{k2}, in determining the earliest                PUSCH/the first uplink symbol of the earliest PUSCH, the                effect of timing difference between component carriers                as given in [TS 38.133] is included.    -   Balanced PHR timeline (version 1): report PHR on the earliest        possible PUSCH, based on a monitoring/search time window defined        in terms of a reported UE capability and/or gNB configuration or        fixed timing threshold in the specification, which is        potentially (much) less stringent that the aggressive PHR        timeline described above. The PHR cut-off time is the reception        time of the corresponding UL DCI/time-reference.        -   Values for the UE capability between the first DCI and the            min (k2) values/minimum PUSCH preparation time.        -   Alternatively, the values for the UE capability varies            between min (k2) values to max (k2) values; wherein min(.)            and max(.) operators can be for each serving cell or over            all serving cells.    -   Balanced PHR timeline (version 2): report PHR on the earliest        possible PUSCH, based on a monitoring/search time window defined        in terms of the LCP timeline. The PHR cut-off time is the        reception time of the corresponding UL DCI/time-reference.

Reporting two/multiple PHRs: The UE reports a PHR for the PUSCHcorresponding to the earliest UL DCI after the PHR trigger, but the UEis allowed to additionally report a second PHR for the out-of-orderPUSCH that is scheduled later and occurs earlier.

FIG. 5 illustrates a flow diagram 500 of a method in a user equipmentfor determining the basis of a triggered power head room report. Morespecifically, the method includes detecting 502 that an event triggeringa power headroom report for a first activated serving cell has occurred.A first physical uplink shared channel resource corresponding to a firstphysical uplink shared channel transmission is identified 504 thatcomprises an initial transmission of a transport block since the powerheadroom report was triggered. A determination 506 is made as to whetherthe first physical uplink shared channel resource corresponds to aconfigured grant or is in response to uplink grant downlink controlinformation received on a physical downlink control channel since thepower headroom report was triggered. Whether the power headroom reportis based on an actual transmission or a reference format is determined508 for each component carrier corresponding to respective downlinkcontrol information the user equipment receives until an expiration of atime window measured from the event. The power headroom report is thentransmitted 510 on the first physical uplink shared channeltransmission.

In some instances, identifying the first physical uplink shared channelresource can further include finding the first physical shared channelresource to be an earliest physical shared channel resource, wherein thephysical uplink shared channel resource is scheduled by a downlinkcontrol information occurring at least after elapsing ‘X’ symbols froman earliest downlink control information reception scheduling an uplinktransmission comprising the initial transmission of the transport blockafter the event was triggered. In some of these instances, ‘X’>0 if theuser equipment is enabled to receive an indication to cancel an alreadyscheduled physical uplink shared channel transmission, otherwise ‘X’=0.

In some instances, identifying the first physical uplink shared channelresource further comprises finding the first physical shared channelresource to be an earliest physical shared channel resource, wherein thephysical uplink shared channel resource is determined based on aconfigured grant occurring at least after elapsing ‘X’ symbols from anearliest downlink control information reception scheduling an uplinktransmission comprising the initial transmission of the transport blockafter the event was triggered.

In some instances, the time window can expire at a symbol having a firstoffset duration from a physical downlink control channel monitoringinstance where the user equipment detects the uplink grant downlinkcontrol information; and wherein the time window expires after thephysical downlink control channel monitoring instance. In some of theseinstances, the first offset duration can correspond to a predeterminednumber of symbols. In some of these instances, the first offset durationcan correspond to a predetermined number of slots.

In some instances, the uplink grant downlink control information can bereceived on the physical downlink control channel since the powerheadroom report was triggered, based on the first physical uplink sharedchannel transmission corresponding to an uplink grant downlink controlinformation received on a physical downlink control channel.

In some instances, the time window can expire at a first uplink symbolof the first physical uplink shared channel transmission minus a secondoffset duration, based on the first physical uplink shared channeltransmission corresponding to a configured grant.

In some instances, the time window can expire at a first uplink symbolof the first physical uplink shared channel transmission minus a secondoffset duration, based on the first physical uplink shared channeltransmission corresponding to the uplink grant downlink controlinformation received on the physical downlink control channel. In someof these instances, the first physical uplink shared channeltransmission can be on a second activated serving cell, and the secondoffset duration is a minimum downlink control channel-to-physical uplinkshared channel time K2 value, which corresponds to a minimum delaybetween the uplink grant downlink control information and the scheduledfirst physical uplink shared channel that is associated with the secondactivated serving cell. In some of these instances, the first and thesecond activated serving cells can be the same cell. In some of theseinstances, the minimum downlink control channel-to-physical uplinkshared channel time K2 value can be a minimum of one or more of adefault, a common, or a dedicated configured downlink controlchannel-to-physical uplink shared channel time from one or more entriesin a physical uplink shared channel time domain resource allocationtable.

In other ones of these instances, the first physical uplink sharedchannel transmission can be on a second activated serving cell, and thesecond offset duration is a minimum value of the minimum K2 valueassociated with the first activated serving cell and the minimum K2value associated with the second activated serving cell. In still otherones of these instances, the first physical uplink shared channeltransmission can be on a second activated serving cell, and the secondoffset duration is a maximum K2 value associated with the firstactivated serving cell and the second activated serving cell. Furtheryet, the second offset duration can be determined based on capabilityinformation signaling of the user equipment, which is configured byhigher processing layers in the user equipment, or is configured by ascheduling base station.

In some instances, the first physical uplink shared channel transmissionthat comprises the initial transmission of the transport block since thepower headroom report was triggered can be an earliest physical uplinkshared channel transmission since the power headroom report wastriggered.

In some instances, the event triggering a power headroom report caninclude an expiration of a timer, which measures an amount of time thathas elapsed since an immediately prior power head room report had beensent by the user equipment, or a change in path loss between the userequipment and the first activated serving cell, which exceeds apredetermined value has been detected.

In some instances, the method can further include detecting a furthersecond event triggering a further power headroom report, wherein thesecond event is based upon a change in path loss exceeding apredetermined value between a time that the original earlier event wastriggered and a time that the further second event was triggered, andprior to the power head room report associated with the original earlierevent on the first physical uplink shared channel transmission istransmitted. A second physical uplink shared channel transmission, thatcomprises an initial transmission of a second transport block since thefurther headroom report was triggered can be determined, where thesecond physical uplink shared channel transmission starts earlier thanthe first physical uplink shared channel transmission. The furtherheadroom report can be transmitted on the second physical uplink sharedchannel transmission. In some of these instances, the second physicaluplink shared channel transmission can correspond to a configured grant.In other of these instances, the second physical uplink shared channeltransmission can correspond to a low latency transmission, and the firstphysical uplink shared channel transmission corresponds to a normallatency transmission, wherein the low latency transmission has tighterlatency requirements compared to that of the normal latencytransmission. Further, the second physical uplink shared channeltransmission can be scheduled by a physical downlink control channelwith cyclic redundancy check scrambled by modulation coding scheme cellradio network temporary identifier.

FIG. 6 illustrates a flow diagram 600 of a method in a user equipmentfor selectively applying the power adjustment of a transmit powercontrol command. More specifically, the method includes receiving 602 atransmit power control command related to a physical uplink sharedchannel transmission having more than one scheduled transmissionrepetitions. An applicability of at least a portion of a poweradjustment to less than all of the repetitions of the physical uplinkshared channel transmission is determined 604. The physical uplinkshared channel transmission is transmitted 606 during each of the morethan one scheduled transmission repetitions, wherein the at least theportion of the power adjustment is selectively applied as determined tothe specified less than all of the more than one scheduled transmissionrepetitions.

In some instances, the more than one scheduled transmission repetitionscan include mini-slot repetition. In other instances, the more than onescheduled transmission repetitions can include multi-segmenttransmission(s).

In some instances, the transmit power control command can be augmentedwith an indication, and the applicability of the at least the portion ofthe power adjustment in the received transmit power control command canbe determined for less than all of the repetitions of the physicaluplink shared channel transmission based on the indication.

In some instances, the less than all of the repetitions of the physicaluplink shared channel transmissions that the at least the portion of thepower adjustment can be applied to is a first one of the more than onescheduled transmission repetitions.

In some instances, the transmit power control command can include afield, which indicates a transmit power of which ones of the more thanone scheduled transmission repetitions are to be adjusted.

In some instances, application of the power adjustment associated withthe transmit power command can be limited to the more than one scheduledtransmission repetitions within a slot corresponding to the receivedtransmit power control command.

In some instances, the transmit power control command can include afield, which indicates whether the transmit power control command isapplied to all of the repetitions of the physical uplink shared channeltransmission or the transmit power control command is applied to therepetitions of the physical uplink shared channel transmission being ina first scheduled uplink slot of the repetitions of the physical uplinkshared channel transmission.

In some instances, the transmit power control command can be receivedvia a physical downlink control channel.

In some instances, the power adjustment can include a temporaryadditional transmission power boost associated with the physical uplinkshared channel transmission including the specified more than onescheduled transmission repetitions. In some of these instances, thetemporary additional transmission power boost can be of a predeterminedamount.

In some instances, the power adjustment can include an amount of poweradjustment to be applied to an accumulated amount of power adjustment,which is reflective of power adjustments across more than one transmitpower control commands. In some of these instances, the accumulatedamount of power adjustment is not increased from the accumulated amountof power adjustment corresponding to a previous physical uplink sharedchannel transmission if a maximum transmission power is reached at theprevious physical uplink shared channel transmission. In other of theseinstances, the accumulated amount of power adjustment may be increasedfrom the accumulated amount of power adjustment corresponding to aprevious physical uplink shared channel transmission if a maximumtransmission power is reached at the previous physical uplink sharedchannel transmission.

In some instances, a downlink symbol coinciding within a repetition ofthe more than one scheduled transmission repetitions can result in apostponement of one or more of the more than one scheduled transmissionrepetitions. In some of these instances, the at least a portion of anincluded power adjustment is not applied to a postponed repetition. Inother of these instances, the at least the portion of the poweradjustment is not applied to any of the more than one scheduledtransmission repetitions, that are postponed to a new slot.

In some instances, a set of the more than one scheduled transmissionrepetitions sharing same demodulation reference signal symbols can havea same transmission power.

In some instances, a second indication can be received as part of aseparate subsequently received transmit power command, wherein thesecond indication modifies a transmission power for a subset of the morethan one scheduled transmission repetitions.

In some instances, the transmit power command can be received from anetwork base station.

FIG. 7 illustrates a flow diagram 700 of a method in a network entityassociated with the application of the power adjustment of a transmitpower control command. More specifically, the method includestransmitting 702 a transmit power control command related to a physicaluplink shared channel transmission, which has more than one scheduledtransmission repetitions. The physical uplink shared channeltransmission is received 704 from the user equipment during each of themore than one scheduled transmission repetitions, wherein at least aportion of a power adjustment has been selectively applied as determinedby the user equipment from the transmit power control command to lessthan all of the more than one scheduled transmission repetitions.

It should be understood that, notwithstanding the particular steps asshown in the figures, a variety of additional or different steps can beperformed depending upon the embodiment, and one or more of theparticular steps can be rearranged, repeated or eliminated entirelydepending upon the embodiment. Also, some of the steps performed can berepeated on an ongoing or continuous basis simultaneously while othersteps are performed. Furthermore, different steps can be performed bydifferent elements or in a single element of the disclosed embodiments.

FIG. 8 is an example block diagram of an apparatus 800, such as thewireless communication device 110, according to a possible embodiment.The apparatus 800 can include a housing 810, a controller 820 within thehousing 810, audio input and output circuitry 830 coupled to thecontroller 820, a display 840 coupled to the controller 820, atransceiver 850 coupled to the controller 820, an antenna 855 coupled tothe transceiver 850, a user interface 860 coupled to the controller 820,a memory 870 coupled to the controller 820, and a network interface 880coupled to the controller 820. The apparatus 800 can perform the methodsdescribed in all the embodiments

The display 840 can be a viewfinder, a liquid crystal display (LCD), alight emitting diode (LED) display, a plasma display, a projectiondisplay, a touch screen, or any other device that displays information.The transceiver 850 can include a transmitter and/or a receiver. Theaudio input and output circuitry 830 can include a microphone, aspeaker, a transducer, or any other audio input and output circuitry.The user interface 860 can include a keypad, a keyboard, buttons, atouch pad, a joystick, a touch screen display, another additionaldisplay, or any other device useful for providing an interface between auser and an electronic device. The network interface 880 can be aUniversal Serial Bus (USB) port, an Ethernet port, an infraredtransmitter/receiver, an IEEE 1394 port, a WLAN transceiver, or anyother interface that can connect an apparatus to a network, device, orcomputer and that can transmit and receive data communication signals.The memory 870 can include a random access memory, a read only memory,an optical memory, a solid state memory, a flash memory, a removablememory, a hard drive, a cache, or any other memory that can be coupledto an apparatus.

The apparatus 800 or the controller 820 may implement any operatingsystem, such as Microsoft Windows®, UNIX®, or LINUX®, Android™, or anyother operating system. Apparatus operation software may be written inany programming language, such as C, C++, Java or Visual Basic, forexample. Apparatus software may also run on an application framework,such as, for example, a Java® framework, a .NET® framework, or any otherapplication framework. The software and/or the operating system may bestored in the memory 870 or elsewhere on the apparatus 800. Theapparatus 800 or the controller 820 may also use hardware to implementdisclosed operations. For example, the controller 820 may be anyprogrammable processor. Disclosed embodiments may also be implemented ona general-purpose or a special purpose computer, a programmedmicroprocessor or microprocessor, peripheral integrated circuitelements, an application-specific integrated circuit or other integratedcircuits, hardware/electronic logic circuits, such as a discrete elementcircuit, a programmable logic device, such as a programmable logicarray, field programmable gate-array, or the like. In general, thecontroller 820 may be any controller or processor device or devicescapable of operating an apparatus and implementing the disclosedembodiments. Some or all of the additional elements of the apparatus 800can also perform some or all of the operations of the disclosedembodiments.

The method of this disclosure can be implemented on a programmedprocessor. However, the controllers, flowcharts, and modules may also beimplemented on a general purpose or special purpose computer, aprogrammed microprocessor or microcontroller and peripheral integratedcircuit elements, an integrated circuit, a hardware electronic or logiccircuit such as a discrete element circuit, a programmable logic device,or the like. In general, any device on which resides a finite statemachine capable of implementing the flowcharts shown in the figures maybe used to implement the processor functions of this disclosure.

While this disclosure has been described with specific embodimentsthereof, it is evident that many alternatives, modifications, andvariations will be apparent to those skilled in the art. For example,various components of the embodiments may be interchanged, added, orsubstituted in the other embodiments. Also, all of the elements of eachfigure are not necessary for operation of the disclosed embodiments. Forexample, one of ordinary skill in the art of the disclosed embodimentswould be enabled to make and use the teachings of the disclosure bysimply employing the elements of the independent claims. Accordingly,embodiments of the disclosure as set forth herein are intended to beillustrative, not limiting. Various changes may be made withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of the disclosure.

In this document, relational terms such as “first,” “second,” and thelike may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from anotherentity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actualsuch relationship or order between such entities or actions. The phrase“at least one of,” “at least one selected from the group of,” or “atleast one selected from” followed by a list is defined to mean one,some, or all, but not necessarily all of, the elements in the list. Theterms “comprises,” “comprising,” “including,” or any other variationthereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that aprocess, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elementsdoes not include only those elements but may include other elements notexpressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, orapparatus. An element proceeded by “a,” “an,” or the like does not,without more constraints, preclude the existence of additional identicalelements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that comprisesthe element. Also, the term “another” is defined as at least a second ormore. The terms “including,” “having,” and the like, as used herein, aredefined as “comprising.” Furthermore, the background section is writtenas the inventor's own understanding of the context of some embodimentsat the time of filing and includes the inventor's own recognition of anyproblems with existing technologies and/or problems experienced in theinventor's own work.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method in a user equipment, the methodcomprising: receiving a transmit power control command related to aphysical uplink shared channel transmission having more than onescheduled transmission repetitions; determining an applicability of atleast a portion of a power adjustment to less than all of therepetitions of the physical uplink shared channel transmission; andtransmitting the physical uplink shared channel transmission during eachof the more than one scheduled transmission repetitions, wherein the atleast the portion of the power adjustment is selectively applied asdetermined to the specified less than all of the more than one scheduledtransmission repetitions.
 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitpower control command is augmented with an indication; and determiningthe applicability of the at least the portion of the power adjustment inthe received transmit power control command for less than all of therepetitions of the physical uplink shared channel transmission based onthe indication.
 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the less than all ofthe repetitions of the physical uplink shared channel transmissions thatthe at least the portion of the power adjustment is applied to is afirst one of the more than one scheduled transmission repetitions. 4.The method of claim 1, wherein the transmit power control commandincludes a field, which indicates a transmit power of which ones of themore than one scheduled transmission repetitions are to be adjusted. 5.The method of claim 1, wherein application of the power adjustmentassociated with the transmit power command is limited to the more thanone scheduled transmission repetitions within a slot corresponding tothe received transmit power control command.
 6. The method of claim 1,wherein the transmit power control command includes a field, whichindicates whether the transmit power control command is applied to allof the repetitions of the physical uplink shared channel transmission orthe transmit power control command is applied to the repetitions of thephysical uplink shared channel transmission being in a first scheduleduplink slot of the repetitions of the physical uplink shared channeltransmission.
 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmit powercontrol command is received via a physical downlink control channel. 8.The method of claim 1, wherein the power adjustment includes a temporaryadditional transmission power boost associated with the physical uplinkshared channel transmission including the specified more than onescheduled transmission repetitions.
 9. The method of claim 8, whereinthe temporary additional transmission power boost is of a predeterminedamount.
 10. The method of claim 1, wherein the power adjustment includesan amount of power adjustment to be applied to an accumulated amount ofpower adjustment, which is reflective of power adjustments across morethan one transmit power control commands.
 11. The method of claim 10,wherein the accumulated amount of power adjustment is not increased fromthe accumulated amount of power adjustment corresponding to a previousphysical uplink shared channel transmission if a maximum transmissionpower is reached at the previous physical uplink shared channeltransmission.
 12. The method of claim 10, wherein the accumulated amountof power adjustment is increased from the accumulated amount of poweradjustment corresponding to a previous physical uplink shared channeltransmission if a maximum transmission power is reached at the previousphysical uplink shared channel transmission.
 13. The method of claim 1,wherein a downlink symbol coinciding within a repetition of the morethan one scheduled transmission repetitions results in a postponement ofone or more of the more than one scheduled transmission repetitions. 14.The method of claim 13, wherein the at least the portion of the poweradjustment is not applied to any of the more than one scheduledtransmission repetitions, that are postponed to a new slot.
 15. Themethod of claim 1, wherein a set of the more than one scheduledtransmission repetitions sharing same demodulation reference signalsymbols have a same transmission power.
 16. The method of claim 1,wherein a second indication is received as part of a separatesubsequently received transmit power command, wherein the secondindication modifies a transmission power for a subset of the more thanone scheduled transmission repetitions.
 17. A user equipment in acommunication network, the user equipment comprising: a controller; anda transceiver, coupled to the controller, that receives a transmit powercontrol command related to a physical uplink shared channel transmissionhaving more than one scheduled transmission repetitions; wherein thecontroller determines an applicability of at least a portion of a poweradjustment in the received transmit power control command to less thanall of the repetitions of the physical uplink shared channeltransmission; wherein the transceiver transmits the physical uplinkshared channel transmission during each of the more than one scheduledtransmission repetitions, wherein the at least the portion of the poweradjustment is selectively applied as determined to the specified lessthan all of the more than one scheduled transmission repetitions. 18.The user equipment of claim 17, wherein the transmit power controlcommand is augmented with an indication, and wherein the controllerdetermines the applicability of at least the portion of the poweradjustment in the received transmit power control command to less thanall of the repetitions of the physical uplink shared channeltransmission based on the indication.
 19. The user equipment of claim17, wherein the less than all of the repetitions of the physical uplinkshared channel transmissions that the at least the portion of the poweradjustment is applied to is a first one of the more than one scheduledtransmission repetitions.
 20. The user equipment of claim 17, whereinthe transmit power control command includes a field, which indicates atransmit power of which ones of the more than one scheduled transmissionrepetitions are to be adjusted.